Shortly after LaBeouf’s departure, two ladies {accused} the actor of bodily, psychological, and emotional abuse, and he informed The New York Occasions, “I’ve no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, solely rationalizations. I’ve been abusive to myself and everybody round me for years.… I’m ashamed of that historical past and am sorry to these I damage.” However forward of the movie’s 2022 launch, LaBeouf denied being fired, sharing emails with Selection during which he informed Wilde, “I give up your movie”; he alleged that he left Don’t Fear Darling resulting from insufficient rehearsal time. Later, whereas showing on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Wilde mentioned, “We needed to change Shia. He’s a unbelievable actor, however it wasn’t going to work. When he gave the ultimatum—him or Florence—I selected Florence. That was him feeling he was stepping away and me feeling like we had been transferring on with out him,” including, “It’s a query of semantics.”
Blake Jenner
Contemporary off his best-actor Oscar nomination for Aftersun, Paul Mescal is seizing the position of Broadway composer Franklin Shepard in Richard Linklater’s Merrily We Roll Alongside, taking the half over from Jenner, who beforehand labored with the filmmaker on Everyone Desires Some!! Whereas no official cause has been cited for Jenner’s departure, his ex-wife, Melissa Benoist, revealed in 2019 that she was a survivor of home abuse, although she didn’t title the perpetrator. Jenner, whom Benoist married after they performed love pursuits on Glee, later confirmed the allegations and apologized, however he additionally claimed he had been abused as properly previous to their divorce in 2017.
Utilizing the multiyear filming strategy that he took with 2014’s Boyhood, Linklater will shoot Merrily over a 20-year interval, with Mescal, Ben Platt, and Beanie Feldstein starring as the principle trio. Final April, Platt mentioned that Linklater had shot “the primary sequence” of the movie, however it’s unclear if or how any of Jenner’s footage was reconfigured.
Louis C.Okay.
The disgraced comic admitted to sexual misconduct with a number of ladies in 2017, releasing an announcement during which he admitted, “These tales are true. On the time, I mentioned to myself that what I did was okay as a result of I by no means confirmed a lady my dick with out asking first, which can be true.” The skilled fallout for C.Okay. was swift, as a deal between FX Productions and his manufacturing firm, Pig Newton, was canceled, and wide-release plans for his movie I Love You, Daddy had been scrapped.
Amidst the rubble had been two of the star’s voice-over roles. Reruns of Disney Channel’s Gravity Falls, on which C.Okay. voiced a personality named “the Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity,” had been redubbed by collection creator Alex Hirsch. And he didn’t reprise his position as Jack Russell terrier Max in 2019’s Secret Lifetime of Pets 2, an element that as an alternative went to Patton Oswalt. “I did have some hesitations, however it was extra in regards to the story reasonably than the voice, so I simply mentioned, ‘All proper,’” Oswalt informed The Hollywood Reporter about taking up the job. For the reason that fallout, C.Okay. has received a Grammy, launched into a nationwide comedy tour, and directed one other film.
Johnny Depp
Earlier than his defamation trial in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp resigned from his position as Gellert Grindelwald in Incredible Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore, the third movie within the Harry Potter prequel collection. The exit adopted his loss in a 2020 libel case in opposition to the writer of British tabloid The Solar. He was changed by Mads Mikkelsen, though Depp reportedly nonetheless obtained his full $16 million wage for the undertaking. “I’m an enormous fan of Johnny,” Mikkelsen mentioned final August. “I believe he’s an incredible actor; I believe he did a unbelievable job. Having mentioned that, I couldn’t copy it. There was no method I might simply copy it, as a result of it’s a lot him. It will be artistic suicide. So we needed to provide you with one thing else, one thing that was mine, and construct a bridge between him and me.”
Chris D’Elia
After the stand-up was {accused} of sexually harassing and grooming underage women in 2020, which D’Elia denies, he was erased from Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie movie, Military of the Lifeless. When requested in regards to the determination to reshoot D’Elia’s scenes utilizing Tig Notaro, Snyder informed Self-importance Truthful: “I believe it was a reasonably straightforward one.” Producer Deborah Snyder added, “It was an costly one, that’s for positive,” with Zack estimating that manufacturing poured “a couple of million” into scrubbing D’Elia’s frames and staging reshoots.
Ed Westwick
In fall 2017, the Gossip Woman alum was {accused} of sexual assault by three separate ladies. The actor denied all allegations in a since-deleted tweet, writing, “I’ve by no means compelled myself in any method, on any girl. I actually have by no means dedicated rape.” Ordeal by Innocence, the BBC adaptation of an Agatha Christie traditional, during which Westwick performed the black sheep son of a rich household, had its Christmastime launch date delayed. His position was reshot with British actor Christian Cooke, who had starred alongside Westwick in 2013’s Romeo & Juliet adaptation, and the miniseries premiered in April 2018.
Frank Langella
When the Oscar-nominated actor was fired from Mike Flanagan’s Netflix adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the Home of Usher final April, the then 84-year-old blamed his ouster on “cancel tradition” in a column for Deadline. Within the piece, Langella mentioned that his costar {accused} him of touching her leg, a transfer that was not scripted by the undertaking’s intimacy coordinator. The actor, who wrote that the undertaking was meant to be his “final hurrah,” additionally mentioned that he had been {accused} of telling “an off-color joke,” typically calling his costar “child” or “honey,” and hugging his coworker or touching her on the shoulder. Langella was subsequently changed by actor Bruce Greenwood, who stars alongside Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, and Mark Hamill.
